Word: vacuuming
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Investigators say those taken into custody had been attempting to re-establish the authority of the Cupola to solidify the Mafia's power structure after a leadership vacuum had followed from the high-profile earlier arrests of Bernardo Provenzano and Salvatore Lo Piccolo. Leading anti-Mob magistrate Pietro Grasso said operations over the past few years have the Sicilian Mob, also known as Cosa Nostra, on its knees. Tuesday's roundup, Grasso said, "keeps it from getting...
...Gore received warm applause from the crowd, but it's not clear his message really got through. Though expectations for the annual summit weren't high, thanks in part to a leadership vacuum in the U.S. and the nagging distraction of a worldwide financial meltdown, neither were its accomplishments. More optimistic observers pointed to pledges from individual developing nations to cut their carbon emissions; under the Kyoto Protocol, those countries aren't actually required to take any concrete action on climate change. Mexico should take a bow - America's significantly poorer neighbor promised to cut carbon emissions 50% below...
...moment among many where Dorsky uses unconventional angles and framing to make the banal, well, beautiful.It’s a good word for describing Dorsky’s work. Aesthetically, his passages are stunning, and their sheer beauty would risk descending into sentimentality were it not for the vacuum-like silence that accompanies each of his films.“I realized that once I adjusted to the silence, that the cinema had a chance to articulate in a way that sound film didn’t,” Dorsky says. The absence of any sound...
Those once crucial food-shopping decisions between local and organic became a lot less important when the recession rolled in. Sales of Spam, which comes in neither of those varieties, haven't been this big since World War II, when soldiers overseas were sent vacuum-sealed cans of cooked pork shoulder, ham, water, sugar, salt, sodium nitrite (to maintain the porcine color) and potato starch (to maintain the cat-food-like consistency...
...because wealthy universities tend to engender wealthier alumni who can give a bigger pay-back. As non-profits, universities are unbridled forces on the stock market. With no obligation to plow resources back into federal and local services, or even to spend a fixed percentage of earnings, these universities vacuum up philanthropic impulses without creating widespread good...